Don't forget the blog candy

I have my son draw a name on Sat. the 18th. You will need to post on the first blog candy post here. Only a few days left.
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CBC38 Belli Challenge Snowmen

Today on Chrissy's blog she is having another belli challenge. This one is using clips, paper clips, clips from the hardware kit that SU sells, binder clips anything you use to clip things together.

I found some swirl clips and used one of them to hold my ribbon on the card. Ribbon don't show to well in the scan but it has a small snowman face and says Snowballs on it.

I used the following supplies:

Snowman stamp set SU

Basic Black & Whisper White card stock

Snowflake Designer paper also SU (retired)

Swirl Clip

Snowman Ribbon

Black and Pumpkin Pie Ink

1" Circle Punch

1 1/4 and 1 3/8" Square punches

This card is cut at 8x9 and folded in half to for a 4x9 card and fits in a business sized envelope. The rest of the card pretty much explains itself.

Check out the other cards done with clips from the Belli Challenge Team

Chrissy

Ceal

Courtney

Lorie

Shelly

Rochelle

Hope you enjoy today's project.

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Extreme Fall Beauty In Minnesota

I love this time of year all the beautiful leaves and the crunch when you walk through them. The clean fresh air it brings. I think the fall of the year is the most beautiful time. Normally it is not quite this chilly yet, but it has been a strange year for weather. I remember when we was little and we would rake up all the pretty leaves into big piles then get on the swing set and swing as high as we could and then jump into the leaf pile. So much fun.
Our yard is full of Pine Tree's so I really don't get this beauty. But at my parents house is another story they have beautiful birch, maple and all kinds of beautiful trees.

The top photo is by some friends house. A place where we thought of building at one time in our imagination. LOL At the end of this road is a beautiful circle type drive and it is all trees like this.

Next is a picture of a Maple tree in my parents yard. Isn't this just beautiful? And the next one is also in their yard.Lastly is one not far from us it is a bush. That bright crimson is so pretty. Hope you enjoyed the little tour of our trees in Central Minnesota.

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It's time for some Blogaversary Candy

Wow, hard to believe it has been a full year on Blogspot. I enjoy blogging for you all, and appreciate you all taking the time to stop by and check out what I have been working on plus my ups and downs of illnesses in my family along the way.

So without further ado here is what is up for grabs.

20 6x6 sheets of designer paper (10 different designs so you are getting 2 of each)

Karen Foster Jumbo Eyelets 40 pieces in Wild Berry

Karen Foster Chipboard Book Kit also in Wild Berry (Kit contains 2 Chipboard covers, 8 card stock pages and 2 rings all already punched and ready for use)

Now to win the prize package you need to leave me a message on this post telling me about your favorite Halloween. I'll start and give you an idea.

When my brother and I was little our older sisters (9 and 10 years older than us) put on a spook house for us and the neighborhood. Some of the older neighborhood kids helped. We had a blast going through our dark basement all decked out. Now our basement you could get in two ways one being from outside so Mom and Dad wasn't stuck with a hundred kids in and out of the house. The cellar was the dungeon an had all kinds of creepy things in there, they had fake cobwebs hanging down so you run into them trying to get out. And like all damp basements and cellers real spiders. They did bowls of things you had to stick your hand into and figure out what it was. They had brains, intestines, eyeballs, all kinds of gross things. Which by the way was all made using things from our cupboards in the kitchen. Think Mom and Dad might of went broke that year. They had Halloween music playing, creepy things all over and the older neighbor kids would pop out of no where and scare the snot out of ya. They was all dressed up in costumes too. Outside we did bobbing for apples and things like that. Needless to say our yard and basement was packed but we sure had fun and is something I will always remember.

So tell me about your favorite Halloween and I will put all your names into a hat and have my little spook pull out a name. Travis was born two days before Halloween so we sometimes call him our little spook, he will be 13 this year. Wow time flies!! Make sure and read the other comments to and bring back fun memories.

I will have Travis draw a name out next weekend on the 18th and post who the winner is. Please add a name and email addy to your post so I can get in touch with you for your prize.

So on with the stories!

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An Award

I got an award from Ceil yesterday and want to thank her for nominating me for this award. She gave it to me for my Blogaversary which happens to be tomorrow! WooHoo one full year of blogging. So thanks Ceil for the honor. Ceil and I are both on the Belli Challenge Team.
So I went and looked it up and I am suppose to award this to 7 other blogs that catch my eye. Gosh this is going to be hard as I know this award has been around for a bit but, I am going to try and award ones that hasn't gotten it as of yet.
Here are the rules:
1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you've nominated
So here is who I am nominating. If you have gotten this award already pass it along again to someone you know don't have it yet.
1. Rochelle Love the projects she comes up with. In Fact check out her blog today for a candy jar. how cute is that.
2. Jennifer, she is very creative, be sure and check out her blog also.
3. Shelly, who is also in the Belli Challenge Team, love her work too.
4. Kimber, hopefully to give her inspirations to catch up on her blog.
5. Karen, has been a long time friend of mine. Check out her blog she always is so creative.
6. Quilt Nut Creations, you have to check out the awesome quilts on this one. Plus she has a yummy recipe to try out.
7 Kim, check out her blog she does such wonderful work.
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Two more days until my Blog Anniversary

Wow, hard to believe it has been a year already since I started this blog. Originally I started on Yahoo and moved over to here. Gosh the time sure has went by fast. So for all of you helping me get this far and the encouragement to keep me going I am going to be doing some blog candy. Be watching and see what yummies I have to give away!
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Hershey Kisses Treat Box

I seen a link to a blog today with this project on it and the original designer of this box is from Becky Fisher. Sorry don't have a blog addy so if anyone knows it please share her blog with me.

I thought this was a neat project, it holds 5 Hershey Kisses. Would be great for a teacher, Halloween treat or for your sweetheart, the sky is the limit on this one.

I will include the pattern here and you just pretty much follow the diagram shown. Pretty simple to do and they turn out so cute. Thinking of doing some of these for Trick or Treaters, we don't get many Tricksters here to Treat! So wouldn't take much to make a few up.

Hope you enjoy today's project. And Thank You to Becky for the great pattern. Sorry now that I am uploading the pictures they are kind of blurry. I hope you get the idea of them though.

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Punch Sample Swap Anyone?

I only got 3 possible 4 to sign for the swap which is not enough. So I will be canceling the swap. Sorry girls we will try for another time.
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Origami Shirt Tutorial

Boy, I lost track of time this week. Where does the time go? I found this neat tutorial on making Origami Shirts and with a note inside. You can find the tutorial here. I love the step by step directions she shows as I have tried several times to go by a diagram before and it just don't turn out for me. So this is awesome! Paperwishes.com this week has a different tutorial on a bunch of different things this whole week so check it out.
Mom got her scooter today so she is in 7th heaven, I know this is going to help a lot getting around for her. She is still using her walker and us walking with our arms around her waist in case she starts to fall but when she is really weak she can get around on this now. Won't have to worry about her falling. I think they said it can go up to 10 mph. Really pretty red one, with a basket on the front.
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WCMD Blog Candy with Korin

Today is World Card Making Day and to celebrate Korin is having some blog candy. Follow the rules on her blog for a chance to win some awesome candy. Here is some of what she will be giving. Be sure to click on Korin's name above to go to her blog Inky Doddle and try for your chance to win.

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